Tour Finale Available for Worldwide Broadcast

December 06, 2012 08:50 Korea Standard Time

KUALA TERENGGANU, MALAYSIA--(Korea Newswire)--As the race for the coveted Alpari World Match Racing Tour (AWMRT) title reaches its critical finale at the Monsoon Cup in Malaysia this week, live feed and video packages of the world's premier sailing series are available without cost to international media.

The Monsoon Cup is being shown by the largest number of broadcasters ever, as the race for the coveted ISAF Match Racing World Championship reaches its crescendo.

A two hour live feed of the event Finals is offered internationally, via satellite on 7th and 8th December at 1500-1700 MYT/GMT+8. Bespoke news and VNR are also available daily via FTP on request (Final day VNR via satellite at 1830-1845 on Saturday 8th December).

Full-event highlights shows are also produced in 26 minute and 47 minute formats for distribution from 15th December.

A full list of international broadcasters is available at: http://www.wmrt.com/live.html

Live streaming video of all of the racing action is free to watch at http://www.wmrt.com/live.html :
Wednesday 5th December - 1030 to 1700 (MYT / GMT +8)
Thursday 6th December - 1030 to 1700 (MYT / GMT +8)
Friday 7th December - 1030 to 1700 (MYT / GMT +8)
Saturday 8th December - 1030 to 1700 (MYT / GMT +8)
 
Live feeds can be embedded to webpages using the below code:

Website embed code:
< iframe src=“http://cdn.livestream.com/events/worldmrt/embed/player.html” width=“960” height=“532” style=“border:0;outline:0” frameborder=“0” scrolling=“no”>

< iframe src=“http://cdn.livestream.com/events/worldmrt/embed/player.html” width=“560” height=“315” style=“border:0;outline:0” frameborder=“0” scrolling=“no”>

Players above are preset to height 960 (top) and 560 (bottom) but can be resized as necessary by amending length proportions.
 
The Monsoon Cup Qualifying Session 3 begins at 1030 MYT on Thursday 6th December, followed by the Quarter Final and Semi Final on Friday 7th December and Final scheduled for Saturday 8th December. Full schedule and additional information and updates are available at http://www.wmrt.com .

The Monsoon Cup is taking place at the Ri-Yaz Heritage Marina Resort & Spa, Pulau Duyong, Kuala Terengganu in Malaysia.

Highlight shows from the season's seven previous events are available to watch at http://www.youtube.com/worldmrt

Tour regular Twitter feed: http://www.twitter.com/wmrt
Live event Twitter feed: http://www.twitter.com/wmrt_liverace
Livestream Video: http://new.livestream.com/WorldMRT
Current Tour standings: http://www.wmrt.com/result/leaderboard.html

Website: http://www.wmrt.com

Contact

Audrey Lakai
Alpari World Match Racing Tour (AWMRT)
+6012 502 2206 (Mobile)

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